Learning Targets for 8/25:

Today, I will:

• Examine the differences between AP Language and AP Literature by comparing and contrasting the exams, reading as well as the writing for the course.

• Begin to design/create my six word memoir by examining the experiences and attributes that make me unique.

Quick Write: How does AP Literature and Composition

differ from AP Language and Composition?

Think/Pair/Share

Please share what you wrote with your shoulder partners.

Principal Academic Focus

Language : Rhetorical Criticism • The four major elements of

rhetorical theory:

Situation

Audience

Means of Persuasion

The Five Canons (invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery)

Literature: Literary Criticism • Historical

• Formal

• Reader – Response

• Mimetic

• Intertextual/Archetypal

• Poststructural/ Deconstruction

• Gender Studies

• Psychoanalytic

• Marxist

• Postcolonial

Reading

Language• Analyze how an author’s

rhetoric and style creates meaning

Literature• Analyze how an author’s

imaginative and artistic language creates meaning

Writing

Language

• teaches and requires students to write on a variety of subjects (e.g., public policies, popular culture, personal experiences) and includes narrative, expository, analytical, and argumentative essays

Literature

• teaches and requires students to write on the critical analysis of literature and includes expository, analytical, and argumentative essays

Texts

Language

• Primary Text:

Non-fiction (includes nonfiction essays in the areas of journalism, political writing, science writing, nature writing, autobiography/biographies, diaries, history, criticism)

• Secondary Text:

Fiction

Literature

• Primary Text:

Fiction (includes poetry, short stories, drama, novels)

• Secondary Text:

Non-fiction

Exams

Language• Multiple Choice: 60

minutes

employs multiple-choice questions to test the students’ skills in analyzing the rhetoric of prose passages

Literature• Multiple Choice: 60 minutes

employs multiple-choice questions that test the student’s critical reading of selected passages from literature in English (British and American) written from the sixteenth century to the present

expects students to be familiar with the common terms of literary analysis, to have strong reading comprehension and analysis skills, and to have some familiarity with classical mythology and the more popular parts of the Old and New Testaments (they always will be literary, not doctrinal)

Exams

Language• Essay:

15-minute reading period to read the sources for the synthesis essay and plan a response, and 120 minutes for three essay questions

The exam measures students’ expository and analytical writing skills.

Students must demonstrate that they can do the following:

1. Analyze how an author’s rhetoric and style create meaning.

2. Analyze how an author develops an argument or idea.

3. Create a persuasive argument.

4. Synthesize information from a variety of sources.

Literature• Essay:

120 minutes for three essay questions

The exam requires writing as a direct measure of the student’s ability to read and interpret literature and to use other forms of discourse effectively.

The form of the exams has been one essay on a passage of poetry, one essay on a passage of prose, and one open-ended essay on a topic allowing the student to choose an appropriate novel or play.

Only Common Ground

Language• Performance on the essay

section of the exam counts for 55 percent of the total grade; performance on the multiple-choice section: 45 percent.

Literature• Performance on the essay

section of the exam counts for 55 percent of the total grade; performance on the multiple-choice section: 45 percent.

College Credit

Language• Although some schools

differ in policy, a student presenting a grade of 3 or higher on the AP English Language and Composition Exam might expect to receive credit for a college composition course.

Literature• Although some schools differ

in policy, a student presenting a grade of 3 or higher on the AP English Literature and Composition Exam might expect to receive credit for an introduction to literature course.

**Public Texas Colleges and Universities will award credit for a score of 3 on an AP Exam**